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Article and Photography by Sinziana Demian/The IRC SOUTH KIVU PROVINCE, Democratic Republic of Congo – The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is intensifying its emergency response throughout the province in order to address the needs...
AMMAN, Jordan Despite the presence of close to 30 United Nations peacekeepers now deployed in Syria, and ten times that number on the way, an agreed cease-fire remains fragile at best. Sporadic clashes between government troops and rebels occur...
The IRC is delighted to announce that ITV News has won the Television News Award at the One World Media Awards for coverage, shot directly from the IRC's Hagadera Hospital, of the devastating famine in East Africa. Correspondent...
Located in Central Africa and surrounded by Rwanda, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi is recovering from years of civil war. Romola Garai, star of the BBC's hit tv series The Hour, recently visited Burundi with the IRC, to see...
The International Rescue Committee is scaling up health and nutrition programmes in Chad and dispatching emergency experts to Mali as millions of people in these countries and across the drought-ravaged Sahel region face a growing humanitarian...
Article: Sanj Srikanthan and Clara Thompson Photography: Sanj Srikanthan/IRC As hundreds of thousands of people in Mali are still suffering from fighting and a worsening food crisis, the IRC is mobilising its emergency team to provide water in...
The IRC is delighted to announce that ITV News has won the Television News Award at the One World Media Awards for coverage, shot directly from the IRC's Hagadera Hospital, of the devastating famine in East Africa. Correspondent Martin Geissler and cameraman Andy Rex documented the work of the IRC's staff from the hospital where...
Located in Central Africa and surrounded by Rwanda, Tanzania, and Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi is recovering from years of civil war. Romola Garai, star of the BBC's hit tv series The Hour, recently visited Burundi with the IRC, to see first hand the positive impact our work is having on women and girls, children and young people....
After a long and brutal civil war, South Sudan voted in early 2011 to secede from Sudan. The International Rescue Committee has been in the region for over 20 years and will continue providing the South Sudanese with urgent supplies and services and ongoing development initiatives to build the foundations for a safe, healthy and successful nation...
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Article: Clara Thompson, Photography: Liz Pender/The IRC As international attention turns once more to the mounting conflict along the border of South Sudan, IRC-UK is shining a spotlight on the equally critical, yet woefully neglected, crisis...
Violence Against Women & Girls in South Sudan “The hidden humanitarian crisis in the world’s newest nation” The Associate Parliamentary Group for Sudan and South Sudan in conjunction with the International Rescue Committee UK...
Laurina Tokpah is 24. After Laurina’s parents threw her out of their home, she was forced to beg on the streets of Monrovia to make ends meet. Every day Laurina faced a challenge to avoid poverty, sexual violence, human smuggling and...
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